On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 13:34:30 -0700, Jared Anderson wrote: > > MySQL: > ====== > my sequel? > my S.Q.L.? Sequel. Why? Because that was its original name. You can (usually) tell a newcomer to RDBMS by the way they pronounce this. The original name for this was Structured English QUEry Language Hence, its proper name was SEQUEL. For legal reasons, they had to change the name to SQL as another company had already trademarked SEQUEL. According to ANSI (usually pronounced as a word), we are supposed to pronounce it letter-by-letter as in ESS-QUEUE-ELL. (I'd provide a link directly to ANSI's document, but their site was too slow.) An excellent source for much of this stuff is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL -- Ric Fischer --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss